Ground was broken on Sunday for a new building at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, which will include a memorial and museum to combat antisemitism at the site of the deadly 2018 hate crime shooting. The memorial will honor the victims of the mass shooting that left 11 worshippers dead and six others wounded. Most of the synagogue was demolished starting earlier this year.
On October 27, 2018, a white supremacist committed the deadliest attack on American Jews in the nation's history at the Tree of Life synagogue. Gunman Robert Bowers burst into the synagogue armed with multiple firearms and shot congregants with an AR-15-style rifle, resulting in the deaths of 11 individuals and injuries to several others, including responding police officers.
